When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

The only clue left behind was the word Croatoan carved on a wooden post. An ancient map dating back 400 years, titled La Virginea Pars and exhibited at the British Museum, was examined by experts ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

“It remains a bit of an enigma.” Searchers found the word “CROATOAN” carved on a post—a possible clue to the colonists’ intended destination. Excavations at a Native American village ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

The only trace of the settlers he found was the word 'CROATOAN' carved into a wooden post, which was the name of another island just south of Roanoke and a Native American tribe that lived there.

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...